Your Test for Friday...

Identify and describe the use of the following:

Book Eleven: Agamemnon's Day of Glory

l. 97-117


Homeric Metaphor
The irony of this metaphor
Realistic, naturalistic portrayal of death
The formal, non-realistic portrayal of death
The bitter irony that begins the passage
Metaphor as a reflection of everyday life in the 8th century B.C.E.

l. 188-227

Role of the Gods
How gods appear to men

l. 166-188

The metaphor presenting Agamemnon as an inhuman force
Trojans presented as domestic or domesticated

Book Five: Diomedes Fights the Gods

l. 321-346

Naturalism
"Tee-may"
The Age of Heroes

l. 985-1015

Athena and Ares as different aspects of war
The character of the gods: Can gods be courageous?
Gods as unable to alter fate